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by mbrubeck 2y ago
But it does mean that the Corporation's dividends all go to the Foundation, its sole shareholder. It has paid such dividends in the past, though as far as I can tell, dividends have been replaced by royalty payments in more recent yea
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Yes, the Mozilla Corporation paid US$19.1 million in trademark royalties to the Mozilla Foundation in 2022, per their most recent annual report. Also, the Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
You already have to deal with the fact that 12pm is 13 hours after 11pm.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
If you use Earth, you can use atmospheric lensing (rather than gravitational) to get a focal point inside the Earth–Moon system: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-be-a-...
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Both projects were started around the same time in 2019. The initial git commits were about five weeks apart: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep/commit/e37c986dd842adc3b2c2... https://github.com&#x2
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
If the constants change over very long time spans, we could observe this by looking at distant galaxies from billions of years ago. We don’t have a way to make similar observations within our own galaxy.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Mosquito elimination has been a common public health measure for a long time, mainly by draining swamps and spraying pesticides. (The Massachusetts town in the article will be spraying pesticides.) And many countries have more recently be
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
> Not sure I follow - isn't rustc still only a compiler frontend to LLVM, like clang is for C/C++? The rustc source tree currently includes LLVM, GCC, and Cranelift backends: https://github.com/rust-lang/ru
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
See also https://www.enemy.lol/
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
The US has by far the world’s largest ex-Cuban population (well over 1M people). Those communities are a big part of what shapes US perceptions and policy toward Cuba.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
> I am not sure why I am continually fascinated by this place. Nominative determinism?
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
> Most data compression algorithms can compress data by 2x to 5x. I mean, that’s highly dependent on the nature of the data. I just took an uncompressed TIFF screenshot of a Firefox window and compressed it as PNG for a 20x compression
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
This bitvec I wrote for Servo and Gecko uses this technique, and has been shipping in Firefox releases for over six years with no bugs found: https://docs.rs/smallbitvec/ I'm pretty sure you can find several more
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Apple was still selling new 9th-gen iPads yesterday. As of today, it is no longer in their store. The 10th-generation iPad (first released in 2022) is now the cheapest model you can buy new from Apple.
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by mbrubeck 3y ago
HTML does not require NFC (or any other specific normalization form): https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-css-norma... Neither does XML (though it XML 1.0 recommends that element names SHOULD be in
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by mbrubeck 3y ago
> You can't mark cap losses against income to reduce income more than a few thousand. You can if a significant part of your income is capital gains.
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by mbrubeck 3y ago
$ echo -n "A" | wc --lines 0
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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls(arstechnica.com)
1025 points by mbrubeck 3y ago|638 comments
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by mbrubeck 3y ago
It can matter if Easter can be on the same day as another holiday, like May Day.
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by mbrubeck 3y ago
There is a treatment called Palforzia for peanut allergy that works similarly.
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by mbrubeck 3y ago
That’s his real/legal name, believe it or not. In fact, Scot is (or was) against the use of fake names online: https://blog.birdhouse.org/2006/02/14/on-anonymity/
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
`cargo build -j11` will limit parallelism to eleven cores. Cargo and rustc use the Make jobserver protocol [0][1][2] to coordinate their use of threads and processes, even when multiple rustc processes are running (as long as they are part
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Specifically, the NY law affects companies with at least 4 employees (including owners/founders).
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
> Who's Hiring posts are not covered by this law or requirement. I don’t think that‘s generally true. “Any advertisement for a job, promotion, or transfer opportunity that would be performed in New York City is covered by the new l
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Specifically, the NY law applies to businesses with 4 or more employees (including owners/founders).
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
> Is there an obligation in the law to list salary range at every recruiting reference? “Any advertisement for a job, promotion, or transfer opportunity that would be performed in New York City is covered by the new law. An ‘advertisemen
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
This got downvoted but it is correct. The "terrascope" concept depends on atmospheric rather than gravitational lensing. The deflection through the Earth's atmosphere is about 1 degree, which is orders of magnitude more tha
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Specifically, PredictIt limits positions to $850, while Kalshi limits them to $25,000. Which is definitely a significant difference, but still seems too small for cases like tmansour’s motivating example ( “providing institutions with expos
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
(minor correction: the pegs of a harp, not the foot.)
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Note that the English word was derived from Old French, not Modern French. And Old French noun boton/bouton (”bud”) is itself formed from the Old French verb boter/bouter , “to thrust.” It’s had a variety of meanings in Frenc

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